Villa El Chocón, 5 km southwest (MUCP) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Andesaurus delgadoi type

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.3° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 45.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Candeleros Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Río Limay Subgroup; 10 m from base of section (lower part of formation)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bioturbated, medium-grained, brown sandstone

• diagram shows massive, tan, medium-grained sandstone. top of bed is bioturbated

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Delgado, Calvo, & Puerta in 1987

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. O. Calvo and J. F. Bonaparte. 1991. Andesaurus delgadoi gen. et sp. nov. (Saurischia-Sauropoda), dinosaurio Titanosauridae de la Formacion Rio Limay (Albiano-Cenomaniano), Neuquén, Argentina [Andesaurus delgadoi gen. et sp. nov. (Saurischia-Sauropoda), a titnosaurid dinosaur from Rio Limay Formation (Albian-Cenomanian), Neuquén, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 28(3-4):303-310 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45409: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Andesaurus delgadoi n. gen. n. sp.
Andesaurus delgadoi n. gen. n. sp. Calvo and Bonaparte 1991 sauropod
MUCPv 132 - holotype (partially articulated skeleton comprising four posterior dorsal vertebrae, thoracic ribs, two sacral vertebrae, 25 caudal vertebrae, chevrons, right humerus, right metacarpal I, left metacarpal V, left pubis, ischia, left femur)